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and west of Ireland to the United States.
The Pope has written to the Catholic
Bishops of Alsace-L Lorraine advising them
to do nothing thatswouId furnish a pretext
for proVocation to Germany.
The Berlin POST" declares that the
French Carabry evolutions at LuneVille
and other military preparations along the
frontier are intended to aggravate and
alarm Germany.
A st. Petersburgh dispatch states Ethat
England and Russia have arranged the AT
CHAN frontier question amicably. Russia
is to have the Afghan branch of the Oxus,
the Ameer to be compensated by territory
elsewhere.
A crisis is likely to arise in Mexico over
proposed measure to prevent President
Diaz from succeeding himself.
1t appears that the Venezuelan difficulty
arose from the British Colonial Govern
ment of Guiana usurping the territory up
to Bornia and Amacure, thereby depriving
Venezuela of the control of the Orinoce in
its entire length.
Chamberlain, in speech at Ayr, made
similar charge against the Parnellites
that Sanderson did in the House of Com
mons. The Kisses of his opponents
drowned the applause OF his friends. He
also charged the Liberal party with allying
itself with men whose hands were red with
blood. -
Fighting between the Dutch and Achee-
nese continues.
DR.. Oscar LEM, a representative of the
Belgian King, has returRed. from pro-
longed journey of exploration in Africa.
In his report to the King he has much to
say about the work of missionaries in
Africa, but not much that is favorable. He
renders full justice to the good intentions
of the missionaries and to the Scotch and
Lonpon societies that send them out, but
he says they waste large sums of money
for really small results.
The Duchess of Cumberland is to be re-
moved from Vienna to Copenhagen as soon
as she has gained sufficient strength to en-
counter the fatigues of the journey. There
is really but small hope of the Duchess re-
covery, but her physicians will make the
best of the case as long as possible, because
the Dukes health is very unsatisfactory,
and grave fears are also entertained that
he will also fall into dangerous state of
melancholia, as he has more than once
been on the brink of breakdown of this
kind. The Duke is residing at his villa
near Vienna with his children. The Queen
of Hanover and his sister the Princess
Maria are with him.
-Battenberg's. baby has been dangerously
~.
Queen Victoria was entirely ignored at
Carnnes the other day by the Duchess of
Edinburgh and her sister-in-laY, Grand
Duchess Vladimir. The German royal
personages there at the same time snubbed
him also. ~1s
A new Russian loan for one hundred
million roubles is to be hoated.
Archbishop Croke and all the bishops
and priests of his province have signed
memorial against the Coercion bill.
At Union City, Tenn, a negro was
hanged by mob in court for brutal out
rage upon female child. The body hung
for an hour in the conrt room, and was
then cut down. The Coroner's verdict re-
turned verdict of death by hanging at
the hands of parties unknown. lltff
The English Channel steamer Victoria
was wrecked on the rocks near Dieppe dur
ing fog on the 18th April Twelve lives
were lost.
At political banquet IN Montreal, Sir
Charles Upper, Minister of Finance, said:
AS a great nationality Canada is indie
pendent of anything that can be done by
our neighbors. During the past six years
the value of foreign goods conveyed by the
United States railways into Canada, and
of Canadian goods carried across United
States territory TO American ports for
shipment, amounted to $169, O00, 600, or
about $3.50, 900 900 for the past decade, the
transport charges for which have gone into
the pockets of the United States Railways.
This will be knocked on the head by the
enforcement of the United States. Retalia-
tory bill. When it comes into operation
the transit trade will be forced into Cana
dian channels entirely. Canada will be
compelled to buy in England, and the pro-
fits United States merchants have been
making will go to English merchants" 1t
is said the Canadian Government win
build canal through Dominion territory
connecting Lakes Huron and Superior.
Two hundred and sixty political arrests
were made at Odessa on Easter Sunday.
Mr. Kattkof, editor of the Moscow "Ga-
zette,' by consent of the Gar, VIII visit
Paris and interview General Boulanger.s
The library of the late Professor Won
Ranke has been bought on American ac-
count.
Lord Hinlip, better known as Alsop,
famous brewer, is dead. He was an ideal
country gentlemen, unspoiled by his sue
cess in business or his elevation to the
peerage. Although Lord Hinlip was q
brewer by trade, he had royal blood in his
veins. On his mothers side he was de-
cendent from the Duchess of Exeter,
daughter of Richard Plantagenet, whose
grandfather was Edward ILL.,
VANITY Fair says: 1t seems an extra
ordinary thing to state that at the present
moment the Chinese Government possess !
the fastest torpedo boat in the world, and |